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Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 191
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www.dailytrojan.com
November 15, 2005
INSIDK
USC's defense comes up with six turnovers as the Trojans pile it on Cm.1 35-10. 16
Vol. CXI. VII. No. 59
New fertility advances-add more options
Egg freezing is one way for women to postpone motherhood to focus on other goals.
By ELAINE WU
Staff Writer
As more and more women choose to pursue longterm educational, professional or career-orientated goals, many are also deciding to delay childbearing.
A few decades ago, this might have presented a serious problem since women race against a ticking biological clock. As their bodies grow older, so do their eggs, which become more infertile.
But groundbreaking advances in fertility technology are providing a viable new option for future mothers-to-be. An increasing number of women are now choosing to postpone motherhood by freezing their eggs.
Researchers at the USC Keck
School of Medicine have recently reported an unprecedented pregnancy success rate of 63 percent using the method of egg freezing.
Egg freezing, scientifically known as oocyte cryopreserva-tion, is a process where eggs are withdrawn from a woman’s ovaries and then frozen in preservation for possible future use.
The method of egg freezing has been around for years, but until now has taken a backseat to other more common fertility methods, such as in vitro fertilization, where a sperm fertilizes an egg in a laboratory test tube.
For decades, scientists have also been helping patients achieve pregnancy by using frozen sperm and frozen embryos.
“The first reproductive tissue to be frozen was sperm, which is easy to freeze,’’ said Richard Paulson, professor of obstetrics and gynecology and the coinvestigator of the USC study.
The first reported pregnancy from a frozen egg occurred in 1986. Since then, about 200 babies have
Examining issues of race and relationships
"The aging of ovaries and eggs is going to happen. But you can take healthy eggs and put them into an older woman. The uterus doesn’t age — it's the eggs that do. The uterus is just a muscle. By freezing her eggs, a young woman can save her eggs for future use. ” ♦
JOHN JAIN associate professor obstetrics and gynecology
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Race relations. Riko Conley, a sophomore majoring In fine arts, and Iris Chla. a freshman majoring in otology, apone about their experience as an interracial coup(<fMbnday at the Interracial Dating Forum. Conley is a Daily Trojan staff member.
Vrterbi receives $8 million
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The gift will be used to fund an institute designed to help the engineering experience.
By CANDY CHENG
Staff Writer
Ken Klein, a software industry veteran and USC alumnus, jgave an $8 million gift to the USC Viterbi School of Engineering to establish the Klein Institute for Undergraduate Engineering Life.
The institute aims to enhance the undergraduate engineering experience with a variety of academic,
social and career services, with the goal of bringing undergraduates into the engineering community.
“I think a lot of people would benefit from the new institute," said Alex Moffly, a sophomore majoring in industrial and systems engineering. “I definitely don't feel that there is a sense of community among the younger students and I think this institute will help foster more relationships and will be a good thing for the school.”
The Viterbi School of Engineering has 1,745 undergraduates enrolled for Fall 2005. The four-year completion rate is currently 51 percent, said
Bob Calverley, executive director in the Office of Communications at the Viterbi School.
The KIUEL institute is part of the Viterbi School’s new effort to retain engineering students and encourage them to return as sophomores.
“It is a very important effort for us at the School of Engineering to extend the undergraduate experience outside the classroom," Calverley said. "Retaining students is a nationwide problem for engineering schools because freshmen often get discouraged with the difficult engineering curriculum."
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The Klein Institute for Undergraduate Engineering Life is designed to provide a variety of academic. social and career services.
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Promoting. USC students Joey Wozniak. left, and Jordan Chatfield are spokesmen for OneNote. a Microsoft program designed to organize notes
Microsoft h to promote
Microsoft hired two students to promote OneNote 2003, a piece of organizing software.
By YOUNG MICHAEL HAN
Contnbuting Writer
In a bid to promote its OneNote 2003 software, the Microsoft Corporation hired two USC students as marketing representatives on campus.
This is just one of 52 promotional efforts that will take place on college campuses nationwide in a series of initiation stages.
Jordan Chatfield and Joey Wozniak. the two spokesmen for OneNote at USC, were recruited for the |ob by Kristin Morgan, a representative of Mr Youth.
Based in New York City. Mr Youth is a marketing agency that specializes in the 14 to 22 age demographic
ires students its software
The students were asked for resumes and interviewed by phone before being assigned the job.
Chatfield, a senior majoring in philosophy, was flown to Microsoft's Seattle headquarters for training in the use of the software. Wozniak, who is studying computer engineering and computer science, is scheduled to do the same in the near future.
Chatfield was detailed in his explanation of the multi-functional aspects of the program as an "electronic notebook and organizer."
A departure from the more familiar and word process-oriented Microsoft Word software. OneNote 2003 u designed especially for the "gathering and organizing of free form notes." according to customer service representatives at Microsoft. A variety of unique took assists in this process, the i see Ambassador* page 11 I
INDEX
Death Cab for Cutie played
• two shows this weekend at the Wiltern. 7
Intelligent design doesn 't belong ut science classes. 4
New* Digest........2 Sport*____________It
Upcoming-----------2 fUstifiedi______12
Opinion*___________4 Lifestyle__________7
WEATHER
Today: Sunny High of 86.
low of 55.
Tomorrow: Sunny. High 82,
low 54.
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Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 191
______________ - _____________________________________ « *
www.dailytrojan.com
November 15, 2005
INSIDK
USC's defense comes up with six turnovers as the Trojans pile it on Cm.1 35-10. 16
Vol. CXI. VII. No. 59
New fertility advances-add more options
Egg freezing is one way for women to postpone motherhood to focus on other goals.
By ELAINE WU
Staff Writer
As more and more women choose to pursue longterm educational, professional or career-orientated goals, many are also deciding to delay childbearing.
A few decades ago, this might have presented a serious problem since women race against a ticking biological clock. As their bodies grow older, so do their eggs, which become more infertile.
But groundbreaking advances in fertility technology are providing a viable new option for future mothers-to-be. An increasing number of women are now choosing to postpone motherhood by freezing their eggs.
Researchers at the USC Keck
School of Medicine have recently reported an unprecedented pregnancy success rate of 63 percent using the method of egg freezing.
Egg freezing, scientifically known as oocyte cryopreserva-tion, is a process where eggs are withdrawn from a woman’s ovaries and then frozen in preservation for possible future use.
The method of egg freezing has been around for years, but until now has taken a backseat to other more common fertility methods, such as in vitro fertilization, where a sperm fertilizes an egg in a laboratory test tube.
For decades, scientists have also been helping patients achieve pregnancy by using frozen sperm and frozen embryos.
“The first reproductive tissue to be frozen was sperm, which is easy to freeze,’’ said Richard Paulson, professor of obstetrics and gynecology and the coinvestigator of the USC study.
The first reported pregnancy from a frozen egg occurred in 1986. Since then, about 200 babies have
Examining issues of race and relationships
"The aging of ovaries and eggs is going to happen. But you can take healthy eggs and put them into an older woman. The uterus doesn’t age — it's the eggs that do. The uterus is just a muscle. By freezing her eggs, a young woman can save her eggs for future use. ” ♦
JOHN JAIN associate professor obstetrics and gynecology
Henft . udil> Tratari
Race relations. Riko Conley, a sophomore majoring In fine arts, and Iris Chla. a freshman majoring in otology, apone about their experience as an interracial coup(
Promoting. USC students Joey Wozniak. left, and Jordan Chatfield are spokesmen for OneNote. a Microsoft program designed to organize notes
Microsoft h to promote
Microsoft hired two students to promote OneNote 2003, a piece of organizing software.
By YOUNG MICHAEL HAN
Contnbuting Writer
In a bid to promote its OneNote 2003 software, the Microsoft Corporation hired two USC students as marketing representatives on campus.
This is just one of 52 promotional efforts that will take place on college campuses nationwide in a series of initiation stages.
Jordan Chatfield and Joey Wozniak. the two spokesmen for OneNote at USC, were recruited for the |ob by Kristin Morgan, a representative of Mr Youth.
Based in New York City. Mr Youth is a marketing agency that specializes in the 14 to 22 age demographic
ires students its software
The students were asked for resumes and interviewed by phone before being assigned the job.
Chatfield, a senior majoring in philosophy, was flown to Microsoft's Seattle headquarters for training in the use of the software. Wozniak, who is studying computer engineering and computer science, is scheduled to do the same in the near future.
Chatfield was detailed in his explanation of the multi-functional aspects of the program as an "electronic notebook and organizer."
A departure from the more familiar and word process-oriented Microsoft Word software. OneNote 2003 u designed especially for the "gathering and organizing of free form notes." according to customer service representatives at Microsoft. A variety of unique took assists in this process, the i see Ambassador* page 11 I
INDEX
Death Cab for Cutie played
• two shows this weekend at the Wiltern. 7
Intelligent design doesn 't belong ut science classes. 4
New* Digest........2 Sport*____________It
Upcoming-----------2 fUstifiedi______12
Opinion*___________4 Lifestyle__________7
WEATHER
Today: Sunny High of 86.
low of 55.
Tomorrow: Sunny. High 82,
low 54.
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